On any given day, about 90 percent of farmed and wild geoduck clams are exported to China. The United States government recently placed tariffs on some Chinese imports into the U.S. The Chinese ...

For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of miles away. George is ...

Washington state's giant clam known as the geoduck became a Chinese delicacy, creating a niche yet lucrative export. But President Donald Trump's escalating trade war with China is crippling the ...

If a proposed Chinese tariff hurts the state’s geoduck industry, a group of harvesters could get refunds from the state. In May Washington’s Department of Natural Resources held one of the state’s ...

OLYMPIA, Wash — Chinese tariffs are hurting the state’s geoduck industry, which is impacting the state’s ability to help salmon and orca populations, according to the state’s Department of Natural ...

Roughly 650 million pounds of them rest below Puget Sound. They can live to be 150 years old. In China, they’re a coveted delicacy, often enjoyed for their crisp texture and purported aphrodisiac ...

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz groped along the Puget Sound bottom, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that would mark the site of a buried ...

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz Jr. groped along the bottom of Puget Sound, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that mark the site of a buried ...

OLYMPIA — Despite a Chinese ban on shellfish from the U.S. West Coast, the Washington geoduck industry is shipping off its product to Asia, with the top two destinations being Hong Kong and Vietnam.

Eld Inlet, Wash. — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz groped along the Puget Sound bottom, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that would mark the site of a buried geoduck. He ...

They’re the ugly duckling of Puget Sound. They’re a popular delicacy in China. And they find themselves burrowed smack dab in the middle of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

ELD INLET, THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — Some 40 feet down, diver Walter Lorentz groped along the Puget Sound bottom, searching in the weak undersea light for small dimples that would mark the site of a ...